Historic Images

Group portrait of Bellevue Hospital House Staff, July-December 1909. Back row (left to right): J. I. Fort, 4th Surgical Division; J.H. Wyckoff, 3rd Medical Division; A.H. Schmidt, 3rd Gynecological Division; W. Hess, 2nd Gynecological. Front row (left to right): C. C. McLean, 1st Medical; H.V. Guile, 4th Medical; H.J. Steele, [2nd] Surgical; J.R. Bradley, 2nd Surgical; D.H. Moore, 1st Surgical; T. McRae, 4th Gynecological; T.R. Pooley, 2nd Medical.

Group portrait of nine doctors standing outside of the Bellevue Hospital Gatehouse, circa 1885. The gate is visible to the right, and a large gaslight is also visible on the exterior of the building.

Group portrait of doctors standing in front of the Bellevue Hospital Dispensary, circa 1885.

Group portrait of Bellevue Hospital House Staff of 1884 on the steps of the old Bellevue Administration Building. The registration records for this photograph list the names of doctors from top to bottom as: L.W. Hubbard, E. Hurd, Le Febre, Hurd, Herman M. Biggs, Gwyer, Sayre, Benjamin, Herman, Rutherfurd, Roberts, Frankenburg, Hubbard, John R. Conway, Hiram H. Seelye, John Weldon, Robert T. Morris, Wildman, Condict W. Cutler, Wm.T. Oppenheimer.

Group portrait of the first staff of medical interns at Bellevue Hospital, circa 1856.

Posed photograph showing a blood transfusion at Bellevue Hospital, circa 1870s. The image is captioned “Old Time Blood Transfusion.” A large group of doctors and nurses are attending to a patient lying in bed receiving the transfusion from another man, seated upright in a chair.

Two women physicians working in a Bellevue Hospital laboratory. The doctor on the right is Elaine Pandia Ralli, MD (1894-1968). Dr. Ralli received her MD from University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1925. She taught at New York University College of Medicine as an Associate Professor of Medicine. Ralli was an authority on diseases of metabolism and nutrition and a recipient of the Elizabeth Blackwell Citation for outstanding achievement as a woman in medicine.

Men, women and children waiting to be seen in a clinic at Bellevue Hospital, staffed by doctors and nurses.

View of students studying in the bacteriology laboratory at New York University School of Medicine. The image is captioned “Research Bacteriologist Annis E. Thomson.”

Interior view of a Bellevue Hospital amphitheater during a dry clinic, with students watching the doctors from above. The caption reads: “Dr. Stewart conducting a ‘dry clinic.’”